Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Short presentation
Elsa Yvanez is an archaeologist specialised in the textile production of the ancient Nile valley, in the chaine opératoire and economic significance of spinning and weaving, as well as in the use of textiles for clothing and burial. She is associate professor of textile archaeology at the Centre for Textile Research, Saxo institute, at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH). From 2022, she is leading the Fashioning Sudan. Archaeology of dress practices along the Middle Nile project with the support of the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme (ERC Starting Grant 101039416).
External positions
Postdoctoral research & PI, Polish Center for Mediterranean Archaeoogy, University of Warsaw
2021 → 2022
Marie Curie Fellow, Centre for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Ancient Cultures in Denmark and the Mediterranean, The National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark.
4 Mar 2018 → 3 Mar 2020
Doctoral researcher, SFDAS. Section Française de la Direction des Antiquités du Soudan
2009 → 2010
Doctoral student, Universite Lille 3 - Charles de Gaule
2009 → 2015
Keywords
- Faculty of Humanities
- Egyptology
- Textiles
- Archaeology
- Sudan
- Nubia
- Material Culture
- Cultural identity
- Burial practices
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Research output
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Facing death: a multidisciplinary analysis of a Romano-Egyptian mummy mask at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
Kasso, T., Stenger, J., Zaggia, C., Pastorelli, G., Ramsøe, M., Ravnsborg, T., Jensen, O. N., Yvanez, E., Spinazzi-Lucchesi, C., Collins, M. J. & Brøns, C., 2024, In: Heritage Science. 12, 22 p., 250.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Textile Workshops in the Nile Valley? Questioning the Concepts and Sources
Spinazzi-Lucchesi, C. S. & Yvanez, E., 2024, The Common Thread: Collected Essays in Honour of Eva Andersson Strand. Mannering, U., Nosch, M-L. & Drewsen, A. (eds.). Brepols Publishers, p. 117-132Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Archaeology of dress along the Middle Nile
Yvanez, E., 2023, In: Project Repository Journal. 16, p. 12-15 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research
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Fashioning Sudan. Archaeology of dress along the Middle Nile
Yvanez, E., 2023, In: Archaeological Textiles Review. 64Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research
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Textiles in the funerary chaîne opératoire in ancient Sudan: Perspectives from Meroitic and Postmeroitic Sudan and Nubia (c.350 BCE–550 CE)
Yvanez, E., 2023, In: Journal of African Archaeology. 21, 2, p. 154-179Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Old Textiles – More Possibilities. The Centre for Textile Research’s 15th anniversary Conference
Yvanez, E., 2022, In: Archaeological Textiles Review. 63, p. 157-159Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › Communication
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Resultados de la 14ª campaña de excavación arqueológica del proyecto Qubbet el-Hawa de la Universidad de Jaén en Asuán (Egipto, 2022)
Garcia Gonzalez, L. M., Alba Gomez, J., Barba-Colmenero, V., De Cupere, B., Van Neer, W., Rubio Salvador, A., Diaz Blanco, A., Jimenez Iglesias, A. B., Yvanez, E., Lutz, S., Diaz Hernandez, R. & Jimenez-Serrano, A., 2022, In: Boletin de la Associacio Espanola de Egyptologia. 31, p. 65-95Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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The Middle Kingdom Theban Project. Preliminary report on the University of Alcalà Expedition to Deir el-Bahari: fifth and sixth seasons and study season 2020/2021
Morales, A., Yvanez, E., Abd el-Hady, R., Alarcon, S., Alba, J., Andrews, E., Arranz, M., Bader, B., Camacho, M., Carrillo, M., Celis, F., Diaz, C., Dorado, E., Echeverria, E., Gonzales, A., Garcia, C., Griffin, L., Hudson, R., Kumar, N., Laguna, D. & 13 others, , 2022, In: Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur. 51, p. 133-177Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Activities
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Fashioning the Fourth Cataract. Textile and animal skin research on the et-Tereif mummies
Elsa Yvanez (Invited speaker), Magdalena Maria Wozniak (Speaker), Laura Cristina Viñas Caron (Speaker) & Lucy Anne Skinner (Speaker)
17 Sep 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
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From clothing to body wrappings. Textile gestures in Meroitic burial rites
Elsa Yvanez (Speaker)
11 Sep 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
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Fashioning women in Kerma – body ornamentation and clothing in the Eastern Cemetery (2100 – 1450 BCE, Sudan)
Elsa Yvanez (Speaker) & Lucy Anne Skinner (Speaker)
30 Aug 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
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Protocol for the in situ documentation of textiles on funerary remains
Elsa Yvanez (Speaker)
29 Aug 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
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Hiding, revealing, transforming. Being comfortable in one's skin in ancient Sudan
Elsa Yvanez (Speaker), Lucy Anne Skinner (Speaker) & Magdalena Maria Wozniak (Speaker)
17 Jun 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
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The sensory archaeology of garments. New approaches to the body in ancient Sudan and Nubia
Elsa Yvanez (Invited speaker)
21 Mar 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
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Fashioning Sudan. Archaeology of dress along the Middle Nile
Magdalena Maria Wozniak (Speaker) & Elsa Yvanez (Other)
19 Nov 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
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Fashioning Sudan - One year in
Elsa Yvanez (Speaker), Magdalena Maria Wozniak (Speaker) & Laura Cristina Viñas Caron (Speaker)
27 Sep 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Press/Media
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Textiles could answer big questions about lost civilisations
23/10/2020
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